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Understanding 9/11GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary
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Get Lamp is a documentary about interactive fiction (a genre that includes text adventures) filmed by computer historian Jason Scott of textfiles.com. Scott conducted the interviews between February 2006 and February 2008, and the documentary was released in May 2010.
The documentary and its hours of episodes and bonus footage contain material from roughly 80 interviews of interactive fiction developers, designers, and players. Included in the bonus footage is a nearly 50-minute documentary about Infocom, the best-known commercial publisher of interactive fiction. The DVD release included photographs, essays, and a collectible coin.
Get Lamp is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike-Noncommercial license.
The name "Get Lamp" comes from the first inventory pickup in arguably the first-ever adventure game, Will Crowther's Colossal Cave Adventure (1975), more commonly known as simply Adventure. The lamp appears as a kind of Easter Egg in every interview. The film starts off with a tour of part of the real-life Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky that Adventure was based on. The soundtrack includes Creative Commons-licensed work from Zoë Blade and Tony Longworth.
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Important notes about these files: The ISO files in this item are images of double-sided 8 gigabyte DVDs, which are best played in the VLC open video player. They contain the main documentary, multiple bonus features and extras, and a DVD-ROM folder with additional production items.
The director maintains a paypal account at jason@textfiles.com should a viewer wish to send a tip after enjoying the work.
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